Comments on: Guilty pleasures & gateway drinks

By: Frozen Drink Blender

Frozen Drink Blender — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:59:24 +0000

Got myself a taste for Tequila sunrise at an early age… though I’ve settled for more mellow drinks, as the taste for hard liquer has subsided with older age

By: ds

ds — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:14:23 +0000

I’ve never had much of a sweet-tooth with drinks. For me it was beer-based drinks. Jim Beam poured directly into a can of Old Style =Boilermaker. Orange juice poured into a partially drunk 40 =Brass Monkey. Or in an innovation that still blows my mind, frozen grapefruit juice concentrate spooned into the 40. I still wouldn’t turn any of these away.

By: TR

TR — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:31:17 +0000

Love this thread!
SoCo & Coke: another vote for this one as Upstate New York high school training wheels
Kamikazes: a flirtation cured in one brutal night my freshman year of college before finals — I slept through one, in fact
Margaritas: still in the rotation; the quality of the ingredients just keep ratcheting up

By: ljclark

ljclark — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:26:55 +0000

Embarrassing indeed, Joe. Ha, I’d never heard of the John Daly before: sweet tea vodka and lemonade. I wouldn’t drink it, but I see the appeal.

By: Joe G

Joe G — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:37:12 +0000

My guilty pleasure is Mike’s Light Cranberry Lemonade with a lime stuffed into it. And the occasional John Daly.

Man, if my friends knew this, my beer geek street cred (talk about an oxymoron) would definitely take a hit.

By: dianalily

dianalily — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:35:49 +0000

So late, but I could not resist. Glad I’m not the first to mention the Bartels & Jaymes – they felt so grown up in high school! And although we swiftly progressed to Vodka & Tonic in college, those inevitably came with sides of tooth-ache shots like Buttery Nipples, B-52′s and Kamikazis. I can only hope my liver will forgive me some day.

Today, my shame-faced order will consist of the occasional Red Headed Slut. Not because I like any of those individual items; the beverage has a nostalgic factor and reminds me of bartending in New Orleans.

What beats all is a concoction ordered by a regular of mine: equal parts Bailey’s, Frangelico and Amaretto, served over ice in a rocks glass. It was the most sickeningly sweet thing I have ever sampled.

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:50:17 +0000

Malibu Bay Breezes, Anna Kournikova’s (White Russian in townie Slang), Whiskey/Apricot/Amaretto Sours, Woo Woos, Long Island Iced Teas, Grateful Deads, Keystones, anything blended…
Safe to say I’d still drink them all if given the opportunity. MBB’s are still pretty spectacular…by default.

By: Kellie

Kellie — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:13:08 +0000

Andrea; I thought me and my friends were the only ones to have “discovered” the joys of SoCo and Mountain Dew! Quite the concoction before- too many- high school dances…

In college there were LI iced teas, and woo-woo’s…

I didn’t read any of the guys (or gals I guess) here mention Haffenreffer, aka the Green Death, as their gateway libation.

By: coffeesnob

coffeesnob — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:56:03 +0000

Ashamed, I am, of my White Zinfandel years, although I had a helluva time.

Bartles & James wine coolers have made me regret having ever been born.

The lowest? Peppermint schnapps and grape juice while watching the Concerts on the Common at the tender age of 16.

You still can’t get me to give up my vodka. Nope, won’t do it.

By: Noah

Noah — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:06:02 +0000

When I worked in the White Mountains, 4.5 miles uphill from the nearest road, our booze had to be lightweight, pack a punch and mix with powdered/concentrated mixers. Our pride and joy was CAPTANG, a foul blend of Captain Morgan (or any rum really) mixed heavy-handedly with everyone’s favorite “orange drink.”

Responsible for more than a few nights of howling at the moon.